Difficulty is one of the prices that we pay for our blessings.

Someone has said that after age forty, each of us pretty much deserves the face he is wearing. He designed it form the inside.

It is a great paradox - almost everyone wants to improve his circumstances but almost no one wants to improve himself.

Lack of industry is an attitude.

One of the most productive things that we ever do in our lives is to think. To be able to think is to be able to decide, to judge, to have opinions and convictions, and to entertain a point of view. To be able to think is to be able to love, to believe, to work, to originate, and to organize.

Those who wallow around in the sickness of their immorality and degeneracy get very little joy out of life here and certainly not much promise is held out for them hereafter.

Building a successful life is much like building anything else: it should be thoroughly thought about in advance and then carried through to completion.